Greek Diminutives in Gothic

Gothic Scholars Don’t Wear Black Gothic Studies and Gothic Subcultures

are hardly in touch with each other. This is something that should ideally change in the near future, since Gothic Studies and Gothic youth subcultures greatly overlap, at least as regards their common interest in Gothic literature, the iconography and the non-literary texts (films, comics, and so on) derived from it. The multiplicity of texts generated by Gothic, understood here as a narrative...

The Acquisition of Diminutives in Dutch

The acquisition of diminutives by a single child between the ages of 1;5 and 2;5 is studied. The data cover the very first uses of diminutives. The child's use of diminutive word forms is analyzed quantitatively and compared with her mother's use. This comparison reveals a high correspondence between the child's and the mother's use, i.a. in terms of the frequency of the various allomorphs in t...

Spanish diminutives and neocognitron-type neural processing

The radial-category theory of diminutives Jurafsky (1993) surveys a variety of genetically unrelated and geographically dispersed languages to uncover ten seemingly haphazard senses that reoccur among diminutive morphemes. He organizes these senses into the universal radial category of (1), in which all other senses are derived from the core sense of ‘child’: 1. Universal radial category of dim...

Evolution of Effect: The Numinous in Gothic and Post-Gothic Ghost Experience Literature

Reducing OCR Errors in Gothic-Script Documents

In order to improve OCR quality in texts originally typeset in Gothic script, we have built an automated correction system which is highly specialized for the given text. Our approach includes external dictionary resources as well as information derived from the text itself. The focus lies on testing and improving different methods for classifying words as correct or erroneous. Also, different ...